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What do you get when you combine an ambitious IT scheme run by the government and a plan that threatens to ride roughshod over civil liberties? The answer is an unholy mess.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-2261933,00.html


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Documents Show Cracks in UK Reactors as Blair Prepares to Push Nuclear Power.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0710-05.htm

Lethal doses of poison were tested on troops, says report into top secret Porton Down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13868.htm

Christina Lamb has spent 20 years covering Afghan wars and was lucky to escape with her life after a firefight 10 days ago. Afghanistan is littered with the debris of invading empires – so why do we refuse to learn from history?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2261727,00.html


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These documents clarify and support many of the claims in the book about the government's use of intelligence gained through torture, and also reveal the extent to which the Foreign Office sought to censor the book.

http://tinyurl.com/gk5qm


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The effect the war in Iraq has had on motivating Muslims planning acts of violence in the UK is underlined to senior Scotland Yard officers in a private briefing document compiled by anti-terrorist specialists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,,1814756,00.html


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A member of the Afghan parliament Friday accused the American-led coalition of opening fire on his family as they traveled by car in one of the most troubled provinces of southern Afghanistan, killing his brother-in-law and wounding five others, including his wife and two of his children.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/asia/07cnd-afghan.html


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The debacle of Britain-in-Afghanistan cannot be ignored, because British troops are at risk. - They are sweltering and dying in Helmand not to prop up an embattled regime in Kabul, for which they are hopelessly undermanned, but to keep NATO alive in Europe, an unworthy mission.

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07.07.06

Der Wehrbeauftragte des Deutschen Bundestags, Reinhold Robbe, fordert eine stärkere Konzentration der Wehrmedizin auf die Behandlung posttraumatischer Belastungsstörungen (PTBS) als bisher. Vor allem vom Afghanistan-Einsatz ISAF kehrten im Schnitt mehr Soldaten mit solchen Erkrankungen zurück als von den Einsätzen auf dem Balkan, sagte Robbe der "Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung". "Den Soldaten muss nicht nur der bestmögliche Schutz vor körperlichen Verletzungen gewährt werden, sondern auch vor seelischen Erkrankungen", forderte der Wehrbeauftragte.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13966

Afghanistan: Vernehmen deutsche Sicherheits-Beamte Gefangene im US-Gefangenencamp Bagram? (07.07.06)

Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty international verlangt von der Bundesregierung Aufklärung darüber, ob deutsche Beamte Zugang zu dem berüchtigten US-Militärcamp Bagram in Afghanistan haben. "Wenn dies so ist, dann liegt der Verdacht einer heimlichen Komplizenschaft mit der US-Regierung und deren Geheimdiensten nahe", meint der USA-Experte der deutschen Amnesty-Sektion, Ferdinand Muggenthaler. Das ARD-Magazin Kontraste hatte kürzlich berichtet, dass Beamte des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) Zugang zu dem Lager hätten und in Einzelfällen Gefangene direkt befragen könnten. Die Bundesregierung hat sich dazu bisher nicht geäußert. In Bagram sollen Gefangene gefoltert werden.

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Confidential papers show that the BBC allowed Britain's domestic security agency, MI5, to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters and continuity announcers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13874.htm

Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, called on the international community on Wednesday to rethink its war on terror, saying that its present strategies were "going in circles."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070606F.shtml

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced there is no military spending cap for troops in Afghanistan battling the Taliban and opium production.

http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20060705-111604-2429r.htm


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Die NATO-Truppen in Afghanistan stellen sich auf einen langen Krieg ein.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23026/1.html

The leader of the British army in Afghanistan has said more troops are likely to be killed in the battle against Taleban forces.

We face defeat in Afghanistan, Army chiefs warn Blair: Army chiefs have warned Tony Blair that British forces face defeat in Afghanistan unless more troops and equipment are sent out immediately, it has been claimed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5139090.stm


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